Evidences of Theriodonts in Permian Deposits elsewhere than in South Africa

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A few days ago Mr. W. Davies brought to my notice the cast of a fossil which had been purchased by the British Museum in 1865 of Krantz, the dealer, with the label ‘ Eurosaurus uralensis , H. v. Meyer, Brithopus priscus , Kutorga. Permischer Sandstein von Perm.” The subject of this cast is that of Kutorga's plate i, and is, as he truly describes it, the lower end of a humerus, with the perforation or canal above the inner condyle, on which character he mainly rests his determination of the fossil as evidence of an extinct mammal and as the basis of his genus and species Brithopus priscus . The discovery of that character in the humerus of Cynodraco and other genera of South African reptilia, led to the rescue of the cast in question from the obscurity in which it had remained since its acquisition, and to the present retrospect of the circumstances under which Kutorga's contribution to Permian palæontology has been thrown into the background, and his supposed mammalian genera systematically ignored. Kutorga, accepting the evidences summed up, in 1831, of the mammalian nature of Thylacotherium and Phascolotherium , and the proofs of the Oolitic age of their matrix, saw no geological objection to the remains of that class being discovered in the Permian deposits. With respect to the most conspicuous test-character of the fossil humerus he truly states that such character was known only (in 1838) in that bone of certain unguiculate mammals ; and he quotes the instances given

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